Butte Cavan Man – Frank McNally on the colourful history of corporate branding, Cavan-styleThu May 21 2020 - 19:15
High spirits – Frank McNally on the Phoenix Park dolmen and the ghost of Knockmaree HillWed May 20 2020 - 19:15
Oh Stony Grey Soil of Montparnasse – Frank McNally on culture, curve-flattening, and carrying on in a crisisFri May 15 2020 - 19:01
A Tale of Two Cities – Frank McNally on Brendan Behan, the IRA’s 1939 campaign, and the other Fontenoy StreetThu May 14 2020 - 19:15
Gladbach tidings – Frank McNally welcomes the return of German football while still pining for Gaelic GamesWed May 13 2020 - 19:30
Famous Fontenoy – Frank McNally on an overshadowed anniversary of the Irish Brigade’s finest hourTue May 12 2020 - 19:15
All quiet on the smallpox front – Frank McNally on a major milestone in medical historyThu May 07 2020 - 19:01
Bittersweet surrender – Frank McNally on the Irishwoman airbrushed out of a wartime victory portraitThu May 07 2020 - 00:01
Great Irish Wake-Off – Frank McNally on a global reading of James Joyce’s most difficult bookTue May 05 2020 - 19:20
A Game of Two Calves – Frank McNally on how a new Bob Dylan song has set two Irish counties at oddsFri May 01 2020 - 19:52
Of ramps and lamps – Frank McNally on coronavirus cliches, Florence Nightingale’s statistics, and literature’s worst nurseThu Apr 30 2020 - 18:30
Spell Check – Frank McNally on witches, Walpurgis Night, and why Mayo can’t win the All-IrelandWed Apr 29 2020 - 19:01
Spoiled Proust – Frank McNally on bittersweet memories of a first trip to ParisTue Apr 28 2020 - 18:01
Copyright and wrong – Frank McNally on Ireland’s chequered history of copyright lawFri Apr 24 2020 - 19:01
April ghouls – Frank McNally on ‘bills of mortality’, springtime Halloween, and other excuses for drinkingThu Apr 23 2020 - 19:01
War minus the killing (usually) – Frank McNally on the strange world of military re-enactments, now also on ceasefireWed Apr 22 2020 - 19:15
Rounding up the rounds – Frank McNally on the rise and fall of Ireland’s short-lived Anti-Treating LeagueTue Apr 21 2020 - 18:30
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Government – Frank McNally on arks, parks, and literary escapismFri Apr 17 2020 - 18:30
River Dunce – Frank McNally on fake-bookshelf builders (and other transpontine types)Thu Apr 16 2020 - 18:50
The English Malaise – Frank McNally on a mysterious ‘sweating sickness’ that terrorised 16th-century EnglandThu Apr 16 2020 - 00:01
Frank McNally on the joys of Europe’s biggest city park at a time of pandemic‘The deer grazed safely, unworried by dogs. People walked singly or in twos. An occasional lone cyclist passed’Fri Apr 10 2020 - 19:01
Frank McNally on James Joyce and Ireland’s bubonic plague scare of 1900A journal of Dublin in the plague yearThu Apr 09 2020 - 19:01
Coronavirus curve-ball: Frank McNally on a bad year for forecastersA hard year to have 20/20 visionThu Apr 09 2020 - 00:01
Wordsworth’s daffodils were not lonely – or even aloneFormer rugby player Ollie Campbell said he enjoyed the poem because it was ‘simple, like myself’Wed Apr 08 2020 - 00:01
Ring a Ring – Frank McNally on the shrinking (and expanding) circles of lockdownFri Apr 03 2020 - 18:45
Distance learning – Frank McNally on the revelations of lockdownReally, the adjustments have been minimalThu Apr 02 2020 - 16:26
Corner Cuttings – Frank McNally on a sobering week from Kilmainham to CaliforniaThu Mar 19 2020 - 19:01
Tippling Point – Frank McNally on similarities between the coronavirus crisis and the Great Plague of 1665Wed Mar 18 2020 - 19:01
Quare de Lune – Frank McNally on half-boiled potatoes, full moons, and Myles na gCopaleen‘And there it was – the white circle in a slice of a half-boiled potato’Thu Mar 12 2020 - 18:30
Megaphone Call – Frank McNally on a curse of public spaces‘Like most journalists, and humans in general, I enjoy a good eavesdrop on occasion’Wed Mar 11 2020 - 18:30
French Connections – Frank McNally on philosophy, the Mountains of Mourne, and women’s artTue Mar 10 2020 - 18:30
Green, White, and Black – Frank McNally on the cross-ethnic coalition that helped turn Boston IrishFri Mar 06 2020 - 18:30
No Tea Party – Frank McNally on Irish involvement in the Boston Massacre, a forerunner to US independenceThu Mar 05 2020 - 00:01
Just Williams – Frank McNally on a tribute to the late Jeremy Williams: artist, architect, and renaissance manTue Mar 03 2020 - 18:30
How Joyce paid the ferrymanFrank McNally on the man who never visited Dublin but landed a key role in UlyssesFri Feb 28 2020 - 00:01
The Felons of Our Land – Frank McNally on the various lives of a republican balladWed Feb 26 2020 - 18:30
Fury Brothers – Frank McNally on the history of boxing, James Joyce, and the curse of cold GuinnessTue Feb 25 2020 - 18:30
Reflections on the Revolution in England – Frank McNally on a 200-year-old plot to establish a republic in LondonThu Feb 20 2020 - 00:01
Over and out – Frank McNally on why Fine Gael is not the party of syntax defaultersTue Feb 18 2020 - 19:01
Irishman's Diary: Dublin tradition of leaving prayers at St Valentine's shrineFrank McNally on messages to patron saint of lovers about more than just romanceThu Feb 13 2020 - 18:01
Come Out Ye Drunken Dads – Frank McNally on the curious reinvention of a spoof rebel songWed Feb 12 2020 - 18:30
